Modern Day Performance Bottlenecks
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:59 am
What are the key performance bottlenecks to a modern day computer?
It seems like at least one CPU generation ago the CPU has ceased to be a major performance bottleneck. With the arrival of SSDs it appears that the hard drive has ceased to be a performance bottleneck.
I still see performance delays in my computer that are not attributable to the CPU (CPU usage is often under 5% and seldom exceeds 25%). A faster internet connection (or at least one with low latency) is always nice... but that is a separate issue.
What is left to speed up in current generation computers to make their performance faster and crisper? Faster CPUs do not appear to be the answer nor does faster memory appear to be the answer.
Does anyone have any ideas, or even half formed thoughts on this subject?
Thanks in advance.
It seems like at least one CPU generation ago the CPU has ceased to be a major performance bottleneck. With the arrival of SSDs it appears that the hard drive has ceased to be a performance bottleneck.
I still see performance delays in my computer that are not attributable to the CPU (CPU usage is often under 5% and seldom exceeds 25%). A faster internet connection (or at least one with low latency) is always nice... but that is a separate issue.
What is left to speed up in current generation computers to make their performance faster and crisper? Faster CPUs do not appear to be the answer nor does faster memory appear to be the answer.
Does anyone have any ideas, or even half formed thoughts on this subject?
Thanks in advance.